Jalopnik caters to incels in their early-20s who are saving for a 200k mile WRX or Miata. They’ll talk to you all day about some random specification on a war with a price tag which is more than they’ll ever make in their lifetime. Meanwhile, they quietly deliver their pizzas from behind the wheel of a Pontiac 6000. The Pumas really help them with the left-foot braking.

Japopnik is shit. Their bloggers are not fair nor balanced and they are subjective when reporting blogging. The layout is bad and they won’t admit it. They use teaser headlines and usually just rehost something from another website which a tenth of the content and twice the duchy remarks.

I tend to agree, but I’m curious why you feel that way? I think Jalopnik acts like, “autoblog with attitude” or something, and while sometimes funny is most just annoying.

Jalopnik uses teaser headlines.

Anything except Jalopnik, they are a bunch of little bitches with an attitude. They push the same stories on you over and over every 12 hours if they want you to do something like the “Bring back the El Camino” piece. Also don’t call them out on something because they think they are hot shit, even though they contradict themselves between stories.

Jalopnik used to be the coolest car site in the universe. It was eclectic, had brilliantly funny writers. I was a starred commenter there, and it was like a family. Incredible games, like identifying a car by a piece of trim, or by its shape under the snow. There were Project Car Hell where you had to pick which of two horrible ran-when-parked horrors you’d take, and why.

Then it went corporate, Gawker turned it into a slick competitor for Car and Driver and bs like that. Gone were the old cars, the odd cars, the great projects.

I just hate their community with a passion. Their comments section is basically the same 35 people who constantly circle jerk the same topics and inside jokes, in between spewing hate towards anything that doesn’t resemble a diesel stick shift Miata wagon. Plus, every day there are at least a couple blog entries that are no more than a sentence or two long and are there purely to pander to those same commenters.

Granted, when it comes to hate, Reddit’s not much different, but at least you can upvote/downvote here. Over there I’m stuck with whatever got posted and approved first.

Two words that describe the precise moment they jumped the shark. Blood. Copy. I’ll never forget the time when they suddenly started linking 15 cars for vampires a day because HBO was promoting a shitty vampire porn.

And why punish everything Gawker? Jalopnik.com is technically part of Gawker, yes, but I know the 2 guys who started it and they have nothing to do with Gawker. This is ludacris! I mean, imagine if Conde Nast screwed up in one of their magazines and in the shitstorm Reddit got banned from, lets say, mainstream media or something. Is that fair? No.

I think the most hilariously tasteless part of Jalopnik commentary is the post of the day awards they give each other. Prize is a photo of a pin up girl. This, when the sister site is Jezebel. Oh the irony.